Cassi Creek: The
Zimmerman trial has resulted in a jury determination of “not guilty.” I can safely assume that Gloria and I are the
only people in the valley who would disagree with this verdict. There is a decided racist component to life
in rural TN.
Truth in this
matter is sketchy. A 17-year-old black
male was shot to death by a white/Hispanic male who wanted to be a police
officer and was rejected. Instead, he
became a neighborhood watchman, playing at being a police officer. The watchman suffered a broken nose and two
very minor, if bloody, abrasions to his scalp.
The 17 year old died of a single bullet through his heart.
Justice was
served when the jury weighed the evidence and handed down their verdict. There was never any guarantee that the result
would be other than “not guilty.” The
Prosecution offered mostly conjecture and broken witnesses including an
apparently incompetent associate medical examiner. We do not have to agree with the jury’s
decision in order for justice to be served; we merely have to assure that the process
is allowed to play out according to the applicable laws.
The American
way is what we saw during endless television overkill. The practice of trying a case publically
needs to be reviewed and modified so that the media coverage does not poison
the jury pool. We need to find some
means to assure that legal representation is the best available for all who are
charged with crimes. We certainly need
to distance ourselves from the type of funding seen in the Zimmerman case;
there should never have been 2nd amendment solicitations to defend
Zimmerman. Neither should we have
someone like Nancy Grace poisoning juries before they are ever selected.
Now we wait
to see how much civil unrest there will be
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